Astronomy / Space A New World's Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine

[SciTrekker]

Source: Wired https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-worlds-extraordinary-orbit-points-to-planet-nine/

Snippet:
Astronomers are reporting that they have spotted another distant world—perhaps as large as a dwarf planet—whose orbit is so odd that it is likely to have been shepherded by Planet Nine. The object confirms a specific prediction made by Konstantin Batygin and Michael Brown, the astronomers at the California Institute of Technology who first argued for Planet Nine’s existence. “It’s not proof that Planet Nine exists,” said David Gerdes, an astronomer at the University of Michigan and a co-author on the new paper. “But I would say the presence of an object like this in our solar system bolsters the case for Planet Nine.”

 

[Patrick_68000]

“I mean, finding a 10-Earth-mass planet in our own solar system would be a discovery of unrivaled scientific magnitude.”

I want well to believe it

Thanks for the link

 

[Cmdr Nemo]

There are no Earth like planets beyond Mars. Earth is the third of four planets closest to our sun which has an actual surface. None of the planets starting with Jupitor and beyond have a surface they are all gasious. Tis one of the reason's though it was accidently added to the rest, Pluto is not a "Planet" It's exact trajectory wasn't fully established until long after it's discovery. Thus because of it's size a new term was coined and it's now refered to as a "Planetoid". If there are anyother supposed "Planets" in our solar system, they are not on the ecliptic nor would they a surface. UNLESS, like Pluto, they are on some sort of different trajectory.

What would be interesting is, IF there are other Plutioids out there such as the proposed Planet X, Planet 9, Tiamat, Nibiru or others, and they share and ecliptic, what's at the core of it?